Sai Kishore

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Sai Kishore
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Kishore playing for Surrey (2025)
Personal information
Full name
Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore
Born (1996-11-06) 6 November 1996 (age 28)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) [1]
BattingLeft-handed
Bowling Slow left-arm orthodox
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
T20I debut(cap  108)3 October 2023 v  Nepal
Last T20I7 October 2023 v  Afghanistan
T20I shirt no.60
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Men's Cricket Cricket pictogram.svg
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Team
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 31 July 2025

Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore (born 6 November 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Gujarat Titans in the IPL. [2] He is primarily a left-arm orthodox bowler, and also bats left-handed. He made his T20I debut for India on 3 October 2023 in the Asian Games.

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Domestic career

He made his List A debut for Tamil Nadu in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 12 March 2017. [3] He made his first-class debut for Tamil Nadu in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 14 October 2017. [4] He made his Twenty20 debut for Tamil Nadu in the 2017–18 Zonal T20 League on 8 January 2018. [5]

He was the leading wicket-taker for Tamil Nadu in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, with 22 dismissals in six matches. [6] He topped the wicket-takers list in the 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy with 20 wickets in 12 matches at an economy rate of 4.63. [7]

Indian Premier League

In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by the Chennai Super Kings at a base price of ₹20 lakh for the 2020 Indian Premier League. [8] [9] He was bought by the Gujarat Titans at a price of ₹3 crore in the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. [10] [11]

International career

In June 2021, he was named as one of five net bowlers for India's tour of Sri Lanka. [12] Following a positive case for COVID-19 in the Indian team, Kishore was added to India's main squad for their final two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches of the tour. [13]

In January 2022, he was named as one of two standby players in India's T20I squad for their home series against the West Indies. [14]

He was part of the Indian squad at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, which won the gold medal. [15] He took 1/25 runs in 4 overs in his debut match against Nepal. In the semifinal against Bangladesh, he picked 3/12 in his 4 overs. [16]

References

  1. Lakshmanan, Karthik; Sen, Abhimanyu (3 April 2025). "IPL 2025 | Prasidh Krishna: 'Loved Tilak Varma wicket the most; Sai Kishore staredown with Hardik was fun to watch'". Indian Express. Retrieved 2 April 2025. Ashish Nehra, GT coach has put together an impressive all-India Three Towers bowling attack comprising Md Siraj (2/34, and 1.78 metres tall), Prasidh (1.88 m) and Sai Kishore (1.96 m)
  2. "Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore Profile - ICC Ranking, Age, Career Info & Stats". www.cricbuzz.com. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  3. "Vijay Hazare Trophy, 2nd Quarter-final: Tamil Nadu v Gujarat at Delhi, Mar 12, 2017". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  4. "Group C, Ranji Trophy at Chennai, Oct 14-17 2017". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. "South Zone, Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament at Visakhapatnam, Jan 8 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  6. "Ranji Trophy, 2018/19 - Tamil Nadu: Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  7. Lakshmanan, Karthik; Sen, Abhimanyu (5 December 2019). "Sai Kishore's Journey From an Aspiring Scientist to Cricket Nerd". News18. Retrieved 2 April 2025. Being tall and lanky – he stands at 6'4" now
  8. "IPL auction analysis: Do the eight teams have their best XIs in place?". ESPNcricinfo. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  9. "IPL 2020 - Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi head line-up of exciting uncapped Indian bowlers". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  10. "Who is R Sai Kishore? Uncapped player who was bought by Gujarat Titans for Rs 3 crore". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  11. "The uncapped ones: Shahrukh Khan, Umran Malik and more". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  12. "Shikhar Dhawan to captain India on limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka". ESPNcricinfo. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  13. "IND vs SL: Krunal, Hardik, Surya, Shaw among 8 to miss second T20". The Indian Express. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  14. "Shahrukh Khan, Sai Kishore part of India's stand-bys for West Indies T20Is". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  15. "Ruturaj Gaikwad, Harmanpreet Kaur to lead as BCCI announces India men's and women's squads for 19th Asian Games". The Indian Express . 14 July 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  16. Prasad, Aashin (6 October 2023). "Hangzhou Asian Games cricket | Washington and Sai Kishore help India trump Bangladesh, to face Afghanistan in the final". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2025.